02030cam a2200361 i 4500 934413663 TxAuBib 20230814120000.0 230326s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023011380 9781982196349 hardcover 1982196343 hardcover (OCoLC)1375657925 TxAuBib rda Nguyen, Bich Minh,. Owner of a lonely heart : a memoir / Beth Nguyen. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Twenty-four hours -- Apparent, part I -- Date of birth -- The photograph -- Apparent, part II -- Apparent, part III -- My mothers -- White mothers -- The story of my name -- Apparent, revisited. "At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left behind--and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth's relationship with her mother, framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years--sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, sometimes with her mother alone and sometimes with her sister"-- Provided by publisher. 20230814. Nguyen, Bich Minh. Immigrants Michigan Biography. Vietnamese Americans Michigan Biography. Mothers and daughters United States. Autobiographies. Nguyen, Beth., First Scribner hardcover edition.